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Bangalore, India (Reproduced from upFront.eZine with permission) Bricsys Continues on Its Vector If you develop CAD software, then Bricsys is your competitor. To understand this competitor is to understand that ceo Eric de Keyser has just one aim: third-party development.... Read more →
Pazin, Croatia After three hectic days at the Bricsys conference, I am in Croatia now at the invitation of Kamen d.d in Pazin. They are users of our GeoTools and CADPower software for more than 7 years and I am... Read more →
Darmstadt, Germany The tradition continues, and the Day 2 evening party, which has now come to be known as the Bricsys legendary party was one of the best I so far. The Bricsys band performed and delivered again. Shivdeep Garud... Read more →
Darmstadt, Germany Following the impressive demo of 3dconnexion 3d mouse, Dimitry Ushakov is on stage now to tell us all that is new on the Mechanical 3D side of BricsCAD. The USP of BricsCAD is that every feature set it... Read more →
Darmstadt, Germany Here is a complete list of new features in BricsCAD V14: ANNOTATIVE STYLES and ENTITIES: This is now supported. Annotative entities can be displayed in different ways (scale, location, rotation) depending on the viewport. An annotative marker will... Read more →
Darmstadt, Germany Erik is on stage now to set the direction for the day's presentation. He stressed that BricsCAD is no longer about just being your alternative CAD but about moving forward in new directions. Ergonomics gets top priority in... Read more →
Darmstadt, Germany The tradition of inviting standup comedians to deliver the keynote address on the second day of the conference continues. In the opening presentation of Day 2, we have Helen Keen on stage sharing interesting facts about the origins... Read more →
Darmstadt, Germany Transoft solutions needs no introduction to transportation design professionals. This Canada-based company with an impressive range of transportation-based solutions is here presenting their flagship product AutoTurn and more today. Established in 1991, 70 employees, 50 resellers and 25000+... Read more →
Darmstadt, Germany CAD Systems from Antwerp, Belgium is now showing their Parabuild software which is still work in progress on the BricsCAD platform and promises to be the first full-fledged steel design and detailing software that will be available on... Read more →
Darmstadt, Germany Geo-Plus is a leader in geomatics software since 1987. Geo-Plus develops and markets innovative land surveying and civil engineering software solutions for AutoCAD®, Civil3D®, MicroStation®, PowerDraft® or BricsCAD® environments. Geo-Plus uses technology that is based on database rather... Read more →
Darmstadt, Germany Hans-Jurgen Becker from DVS System Software is now talking about a packaging application that works with BricsCAD. Hans stressed the importance of packaging by saying that "packaging is everything - with the right packaging, you can sell everything... Read more →
Darmstadt, Germany Many of BricsCAD third party developers are also supplying technology that is part of BricsCAD itself. Next on the podium is JETCAM systems, a company which specializes in sheet metal for aerospace and automotive industries, covering punching, profiling,... Read more →
Darmstadt, Germany Next on stage is Neil Peterson, CTO of the Open Design Alliance giving us a brief intro of ODA, and the close working relationship they share with Bricsys, interacting on a daily basis. Neil admires Bricsys for its... Read more →
Darmstadt, Germany After the coffee break, the next presentation is from FIAN System, based in Morainvilliers, in France. We are being demo'ed Escadesign, which is a niche product for design of stairs. They claim about 60000 stair designs per year... Read more →
Darmstadt, Germany In this presentation, the Renaud Deparis Lionel Schmitt of France-based Redway 3d are presenting their rendering technology (RedSDK) on which all of Bricsys rendering is based. Redsdk is a C++ programming toolkit dedicated to image visualization. Redsdk covers... Read more →
Darmstadt, Germany Next on stage is Manuel from Pit-Cup, a company based out of Hiedelberg, Germany and was founded in 1991 by building and utilities engineers. IT specialists were added to build a competent team, and they introduced the first... Read more →
Darmstadt, Germany Luc de Batselier, CTO starts off the first presentation of API updates. He started off with the improvements in the Lisp engine. Lisp code pattern recognition, code optimization, Express Tools API compatibility, Fast COM and the new Lisp... Read more →
Darmstadt, Germany I am in Darmstadt, Germany today and the Bricsys International 2013 conference starts tomorrow. Taking a quick walk around the town center, I passed by the venue, Darmstadtium and discovered an interesting fact. Though it is built as... Read more →
Bangalore, India The Bricsys 2013 International Conference is a week away and the CAD world is waiting eagerly to hear all that is new, cool and exciting. I will be at the conference and blogging the event live on October... Read more →
Bangalore, India When a registered version of GeoTools or CADPower loads, it is common to see a startup message which looks like: Reading F:\projects\1111_cadpower\CADPowerUser14_EN_AC.rgs... Successfully read CADPower registration information... CADPower Version 14.13 [English], Registered to ACROPOLIS, GUID File could not... Read more →
